The New South Wales Police Association is calling for its officers to be better trained and equipped to take down "lone wolf" terrorists, and it wants general duties officers to be assigned long-range firearms....

CAROLINE JONES, PRESENTER: Hello I'm Caroline Jones. Tonight the conclusion to our Bob Hawke story. A generation ago Prime Minister Hawke enjoyed the kind of sustained acclaim that has largely eluded his successors. One the eve of his 85th birthday, the former Prime Minister and those closest to ...

One of Australia's most colourful businessmen, "Big Jim" Byrnes, says he witnessed one of the key targets of the trade union royal commission, George Alex, pass an envelope full of cash to a construction union official....

A federal court judge and former colleague of Julia Gillard has said there were rumours at a law firm where they both worked that union funds had paid for renovations done on the former prime minister's house....